According to a Boston Globe report, the Miami Marlins’ everything-must-go sale is still up and running. This time it’s young slugger Giancarlo Stanton who is in the display window, and other teams are stopping to take a gander.

Giancarlo Stanton: The Yankees, Red Sox and Phillies are among the teams that have expressed interest in trading for the Marlins slugger. (AP Photo)

Normally, this would be just another reason to blast the Marlins’ management for its swindling of fans. But this is different considering what has already happened.

Because the Marlins already have bailed on their plan to build a contender by trading away Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez and Heath Bell, among other players, they might as well start a serious rebuild. That might mean trading away Stanton, one of the best young hitters in the game and easily one of the best power hitters in baseball.

If the Marlins can start a bidding war for Stanton, who just turned 23 and won’t be eligible for arbitration until 2014 (he made less than half a million dollars last year), they could get back a haul that could bump their farm system to one of the more promising in the game when added to the decent prospects they got from the Toronto Blue Jays earlier this month. Considering Stanton’s talent, his age and his cost, he’s the kind of player who could fetch a package even better than the one Texas Rangers got for Mark Teixeira when they shipped him to the Atlanta Braves in 2007.

In that deal, the Rangers got back Elvis Andrus, one of the best young shortstops in the league; Neftali Feliz, a dominant closer who the Rangers believe can be a front-line starter and Matt Harrison, who had a career-high 138 ERA-plus in 2012. Jarrod Saltalamacchia was also part of the trade. That deal helped take the Rangers from a rebuilding project to back-to-back American League champions in 2010 and 2011.

The Marlins should shoot for the stars with Stanton and demand a package they believe can rival the one the Rangers received. Actually, it probably would have to be if the Marlins don’t want commissioner Bud Selig to get involved in their business since the Boston Globe also reported that a team would have to “give their best” for Selig to not intervene.

The Marlins aren’t going to compete next season, and if they don’t go out and acquire big-time pitching and hitting in the next two offseasons, the current one included, they might be wasting Stanton’s best years. Since there is no real chance for them to contend anyway, the Marlins best play is an unpopular one.

They should trade Stanton for the betterment of the organization. Since the Marlins don’t know how to spend their money wisely or keep a promise, they might as well try a new ad campaign focusing on the future.

Move Stanton now, take the public relations hit – the Marlins should be used to that by now – and hope that in about three or four years they can tell their fan base, whatever might be left of it, “We told you so.”

Stanton finished 2013 with 37 home runs, 30 doubles and a .290 batting average. He led the league in slugging percentage (.608) and was third in on-base plus slugging (.969).